Google Kubernetes Engine Job Trends

Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Google Kubernetes Engine skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 744 667 774
Rank change year-on-year -77 +107 -92
Permanent jobs citing Google Kubernetes Engine 49 21 32
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.045% 0.042% 0.039%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.18% 0.13% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 39 19 12
10th Percentile £54,750 £64,500 £65,000
25th Percentile £60,625 £73,685 £65,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,000 £78,810 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.91% -1.49% -
75th Percentile £82,500 £82,751 £85,420
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £98,542
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,500 £78,810 £75,000
% change year-on-year -10.54% +5.08% -

All Cloud Computing Skills
UK

Google Kubernetes Engine falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 27,651 16,009 25,787
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 25.15% 31.95% 31.70%
Number of salaries quoted 18,548 10,944 17,588
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £39,750 £44,998
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -4.53%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -

Google Kubernetes Engine
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Google Kubernetes Engine relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Google Kubernetes Engine job vacancy trend in the UK

Google Kubernetes Engine
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Google Kubernetes Engine.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Google Kubernetes Engine

Google Kubernetes Engine
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Google Kubernetes Engine over the 6 months to 31 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Google Kubernetes Engine in the UK

Google Kubernetes Engine
Top 11 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Google Kubernetes Engine within the UK over the 6 months to 31 August 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -72 37 £72,500 -8.01% 45
UK excluding London -98 31 £70,500 -10.54% 17
London -38 16 £90,000 +14.20% 35
Work from Home -39 16 £71,000 -9.91% 26
North of England -61 13 £72,500 -8.01% 4
North West 0 12 £72,500 -8.01% 2
Wales -59 10 £70,000 - 1
South West -68 4 £67,500 -14.35% 2
South East -29 3 £57,500 -11.54% 5
Yorkshire -39 1 £90,000 +14.20% 2
East of England - 1 £72,500 -

Google Kubernetes Engine
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Business Applications
1 1 (2.04%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 48 (97.96%) GCP
2 21 (42.86%) Azure
3 12 (24.49%) AWS
3 12 (24.49%) Azure AKS
4 9 (18.37%) GitHub
5 7 (14.29%) Azure Sentinel
5 7 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
6 6 (12.24%) Google Compute Engine
7 5 (10.20%) Amazon EKS
7 5 (10.20%) AWS CloudFormation
7 5 (10.20%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (10.20%) Cloud Functions
8 4 (8.16%) Cloud Run
8 4 (8.16%) SaaS
8 4 (8.16%) Vertex AI
9 3 (6.12%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 2 (4.08%) Entra ID
10 2 (4.08%) OpenShift
11 1 (2.04%) Amazon ECS
11 1 (2.04%) Amazon GuardDuty
Communications & Networking
1 7 (14.29%) Firewall
2 3 (6.12%) DNS
2 3 (6.12%) Network Security
3 1 (2.04%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (12.24%) BigQuery
2 4 (8.16%) NoSQL
3 2 (4.08%) Cloud Spanner
3 2 (4.08%) DynamoDB
3 2 (4.08%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (4.08%) MongoDB
3 2 (4.08%) MySQL
3 2 (4.08%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.04%) Data Hub
4 1 (2.04%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 16 (32.65%) Jenkins
2 9 (18.37%) GitLab
3 5 (10.20%) Git
4 2 (4.08%) Bitbucket
General
1 16 (32.65%) Finance
2 6 (12.24%) Social Skills
3 4 (8.16%) Banking
4 3 (6.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (4.08%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.04%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (36.73%) DevOps Engineer
2 16 (32.65%) Senior
3 15 (30.61%) Platform Engineer
4 12 (24.49%) Senior DevOps
4 12 (24.49%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 11 (22.45%) Architect
5 11 (22.45%) Senior Platform Engineer
6 10 (20.41%) DevOps Platform Engineer
7 9 (18.37%) GCP Engineer
8 7 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
9 6 (12.24%) Cloud Architect
9 6 (12.24%) GCP Architect
10 5 (10.20%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 3 (6.12%) Cloud Consultant
11 3 (6.12%) Cloud Security Engineer
11 3 (6.12%) Consultant
11 3 (6.12%) Java Engineer
11 3 (6.12%) Security Engineer
12 2 (4.08%) GCP DevOps Engineer
12 2 (4.08%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (73.47%) Terraform
2 2 (4.08%) Kafka
2 2 (4.08%) Keycloak
2 2 (4.08%) RESTful
3 1 (2.04%) eBPF
3 1 (2.04%) LangChain
3 1 (2.04%) Loki
3 1 (2.04%) Micronaut
3 1 (2.04%) Model Context Protocol
3 1 (2.04%) REST
3 1 (2.04%) SailPoint
3 1 (2.04%) SAP Basis
3 1 (2.04%) Spring
3 1 (2.04%) Spring Boot
3 1 (2.04%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 26 (53.06%) Cloud Native
2 5 (10.20%) Enterprise Cloud
3 3 (6.12%) Cloud Security Posture
3 3 (6.12%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (6.12%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (6.12%) Security Posture
4 2 (4.08%) Public Cloud
5 1 (2.04%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (2.04%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.04%) IoT
5 1 (2.04%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (2.04%) Private Cloud
5 1 (2.04%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.04%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 6 (12.24%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (81.63%) CI/CD
2 35 (71.43%) DevOps
2 35 (71.43%) Infrastructure as Code
3 21 (42.86%) Platform Engineering
4 18 (36.73%) Containerisation
5 14 (28.57%) Observability
6 12 (24.49%) Software Engineering
7 11 (22.45%) AI
8 10 (20.41%) Cloud Security
8 10 (20.41%) Mentoring
9 9 (18.37%) Agile
10 8 (16.33%) Machine Learning
11 7 (14.29%) GitOps
11 7 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 6 (12.24%) Collaborative Engineering
12 6 (12.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 6 (12.24%) Problem-Solving
12 6 (12.24%) Technical Leadership
13 5 (10.20%) Collaborative Culture
13 5 (10.20%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 20 (40.82%) Python
2 10 (20.41%) Go
3 8 (16.33%) Bash
4 7 (14.29%) Java
5 4 (8.16%) SQL
6 3 (6.12%) PHP
7 1 (2.04%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 8 (16.33%) Security Cleared
2 6 (12.24%) SC Cleared
3 5 (10.20%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.04%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (2.04%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.04%) CCSP
4 1 (2.04%) CEH
4 1 (2.04%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (2.04%) CISM
4 1 (2.04%) CISSP
4 1 (2.04%) CompTIA CySA+
4 1 (2.04%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (2.04%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.04%) GIAC
4 1 (2.04%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (12.24%) PCI DSS
2 4 (8.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (8.16%) SOC 2
3 1 (2.04%) NIST
System Software
1 11 (22.45%) Docker
2 1 (2.04%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.04%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (2.04%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 45 (91.84%) Kubernetes
2 12 (24.49%) Grafana
2 12 (24.49%) Prometheus
3 10 (20.41%) Istio
4 4 (8.16%) Argo
5 3 (6.12%) Kustomize
5 3 (6.12%) linkerd
5 3 (6.12%) Progress Chef
5 3 (6.12%) Puppet
6 2 (4.08%) Ansible
6 2 (4.08%) Cilium
6 2 (4.08%) Rancher
7 1 (2.04%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 40 (81.63%) Google
2 6 (12.24%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.04%) CrowdStrike
3 1 (2.04%) Guidewire
3 1 (2.04%) MuleSoft
3 1 (2.04%) OpenText
3 1 (2.04%) SAP
3 1 (2.04%) Splunk
3 1 (2.04%) TIBCO